Envision a young group of boys stranded on a deserted island, where the absence of adult supervision transforms innocence into chaos, and the struggle for authority reveals the dark and twisted primal instincts lurking beneath their civilized impressions. In Lord of the Flies, a group of young schoolboys, aged six to twelve, are stranded on an uninhabited island after their plane crashes. What follows afterward is a poor attempt to establish their society, the eventual downfall of leadership, and a brutal, bloody battle. British officers came to the boys' rescue in the end, but not without losses along the way. In William Goldin's "Lord of the Flies," the experiences of the young boys are examples of how humans can be driven to the unthinkable …show more content…
maybe it's only us,” (Golding, chapter 5). This reveals that when under enough pressure, the unthinkable is possible at the hands of any human. The boys not only have lost their social structure, but fear leads them to kill one of their own in a haze, out of fear for the beast. An act otherwise unthinkable happens because their fear distorted their reality, and nothing could have stopped them, as there was no social order. The second quote for this point is, "The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed"(Golding, chapter 9). This quote talks about the circle of boys and the behaviors taken after seeing the "beast" stumble upon their gathering on a stormy night. The second quote for this point is, "The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed"(Golding, chapter 9). This quote talks about the circle of boys and the behaviors taken after seeing the "beast" stumble upon their gathering on a stormy night. Continuing to fight and struggle for power and survival, the boys fully descend into savagery and primal instinct, reaching a point of no return. In the same chapter moments before Simon was killed by the group of boys, Jack and his followers began a chant, accompanied by ritualistic circular movement, "Kill the